One title from a series that Sybil Wettasinghe put together for very young children, set in large Sinhala letters for readers who are still finding their way around words on a page.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, with no English translation, so a buyer outside Sri Lanka should know that reading it — or reading it aloud to a child — requires Sinhala. The title is the Sinhala word for a shoe.
Wettasinghe was a painter and an author of children's books, and her work in both of those roles is familiar to generations of Sri Lankan readers. Books of hers in this large-letter format are made with the earliest stage of reading in mind: the type is set big, and the pages are built for a small child holding the book.
It is published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, an established Colombo house. For Sinhala-speaking families abroad, this is the kind of book that keeps the language in a child's hands at home, in the same editions children in Sri Lanka grow up with.
- Author: Sybil Wettasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552125591
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